Typology of Religious Sub-cultures among Mashhad Youth

Authors

  • Arash Ghahraman MA of Social Research and Researcher of Social Sciences of Mashhad University
  • Muhammad Reza Baratnezhad had, Researcher of Social Sciences of Mashhad University
Abstract:

This article analyses the religious sub-cultures of youth who live in Mashhad. The main question of this research is about youth classification and their beliefs, values and norms. Statistical population is chosen from the youth who are 15 to 29 years old and 600 persons are regarded as the sample study. In the research method is survey and data gathering instrument is aresearcher-made questionnaire. The research, the authors divided youth into five sub-cultures as follows:ideological, traditional, provincial, secular, personal and familial. Theyfound that the first three sub-cultures were similar and all youth areinterested in ideological and traditional ones more than secular, personal andfamilial one.

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Journal title

volume 1  issue 01

pages  9- 38

publication date 2010-01-01

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